All Saints’ Sunday set at Grace Lower Stone

Published 12:00 am Friday, November 1, 2024

ROCKWELL — Grace Lower Stone Reformed Church, 2410 Lower Stone Church Road, Rockwell, will celebrate All Saints’ Sunday, Nov. 3 with three services.

The first service will be the congregation’s 9 a.m. contemporary worship, the second will be their 11 a.m. traditional worship, and the third will be a 5:30 p.m. Vespers.

Vespers will be held outside in the cemetery, which surrounds the 229-year-old stone church building. The sun will be setting during the service, and the more than 500 solar lights that have been placed at each grave stone will randomly begin to come on.

Members of the youth group will be participating during the homily.

Grace Lower Stone Church was organized circa 1750 by early German settlers who began arriving in southeastern Rowan County in 1747 or 1748. Their current stone house of worship was completed in 1795 and is the oldest church building in Rowan County in continuous use.